My dear friend was kind enough to bring us free beer. A lot were types we didn’t truely enjoy and there is a ton she donated to us!
Similar to when i had a couple cases of coors light beer from a trip the inlaws were unable to make, so began another trip into the recipe search of what can i make with beer.
Coming soon is a recipe to make pizza dough with beer. Currently i finally made a banana bread with a kolsh. The recipe called for a wheat beer, but if we have a wheat beer, we’ll be drinking those!
This recipe doesn’t used refined sugar, which i didn’t realize until the bread came out and it was delightfully sweet!
As we don’t generally eat bananas, or i’m pretty particular about when i’ll eat a banana. It needs to have a touch of green, no brown spots. Which basically 20 seconds in the life of a banana. I tend to buy them when they go on super sale and freeze them for future use. More info here.
Beernana Bread
Ingredients
- 3 cups self-rising flour
- OR 3 cups flour, 5 tsp baking powder, 3/4 tsp salt
- 3/4 cup quick-cooking oats
- 1/2 cup packed brown sugar
- 1-1/2 cups mashed ripe bananas (about 3 medium)
- 1 bottle (12 ounces) beer
- 1/4 cup maple syrup
- 1 cup chocolate chips
Topping
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 1/4 – 1 teaspoon kosher salt, flavored, finishing
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375°.
- In a large bowl, mix flour, oats and brown sugar.
- In another bowl, mix bananas, beer and maple syrup until blended.
- Add to flour mixture; stir just until moistened.
- Stir in chocolate chips
- Transfer to a greased 9×5-in. loaf pan.
- Drizzle with oil;
- sprinkle with salt.
- Bake until a toothpick inserted in center comes out clean, 55-70 minutes.
- Cool in pan for 10 minutes before removing to a wire rack to cool.
Verdict:
Awesome! Pretty easy to make, just needed the bananas to frost and get squishy.
It definitely took a long time for it to cook in my oven. I did mistakenly put the oil inside, so that might have made it more suseptable to burning.
I don’t have self rising flour, so went to King Arthur to find the replacement options. I thought it might puff way too far, but it all worked out.
I did add chocolate chips – as hubby informed me after it was complete, he’s not a fan of banana bread without chocolate chips.
Next time i think i would us my mini load pan, which would hopefully make the cook time less and keep the tops from getting a bit more done than i prefer.
If you try it let me know what you think!
